{"id":102204,"date":"2026-04-15T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/?p=102204"},"modified":"2026-04-15T08:31:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:31:00","slug":"buying-property-costa-del-sol-estepona-marbella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/buyers\/buying-property-costa-del-sol-estepona-marbella\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Buying Property in the Costa del Sol: Estepona or Marbella?"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"table table-striped table-color-500\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Currently,<strong> buying a home in Estepona remains more affordable than in Marbella<\/strong>, but prices are growing at a faster rate.<\/li>\n<li>In March 2026, Estepona narrowed the gap with Marbella, with average home purchase prices of 4,954 \u20ac\/m\u00b2 compared to 5,501 \u20ac\/m\u00b2 in Marbella.<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"numfew\" data-start=\"570\" data-end=\"668\">Prices in Estepona increased by 12.5% year-on-year in March 2026, compared to 5.1% in Marbella.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"10\">Currently, buying a home in Estepona is 10% more affordable than in Marbella. While <strong>the average property price in Marbella stood at 5,501 \u20ac\/m\u00b2 in March 2026, Estepona registered average prices of 4,954 \u20ac\/m\u00b2,<\/strong> according to Fotocasa data. However, prices in Estepona are growing at a much faster pace, increasingly closing the gap with its neighboring town.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"11\">Estepona is no longer simply the \u00abcheaper sibling,\u00bb but a growth engine attracting those looking for brand-new homes in modern areas. Marbella, for its part, remains the haven of consolidated luxury.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"11\">If you are thinking of buying a house in the Costa del Sol, at Fotocasa we analyze property prices in each city and answer this question: which city is better for buying a home in 2026?<\/p>\n<h2 data-path-to-node=\"12\">Estepona or Marbella: which is cheaper?<\/h2>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"15\">Today, Estepona remains the more affordable option, but that advantage is rapidly shrinking. While the market in Marbella has matured with a more stable annual price growth of 5.1%, prices in Estepona have soared by 12.5% over the last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fotocasa is the expert real estate portal if you are looking for your home in Spain and want to resolve your doubts about housing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":102210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"yes","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13472],"tags":[13742,13535,14352,14708,14709,14710,14711],"class_list":["post-102204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buyers","tag-comprar-casa","tag-compraventa","tag-costa-del-sol","tag-estepona","tag-indice-inmobiliario-fotocasa","tag-marbella","tag-precios-vivienda-2026"],"modified_by":"Patricia Andr\u00e9s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}